araneae - Turinyphia simplex

Description

Male

Prosoma brownish yellow, with broad darker margin. Posterior median eyes separated by their radius. Sternum brownish-yellowish. Legs yellow, very long. Opisthosma pale dorsally, with several symmetric grey spots and dorso-lateral stripes.

Body length male: 4.0 mm

Female

Opisthosoma with two broad grey stripes ventrally, with a broad dark stripe laterally and dorsally with grey spots, becoming transverse bands at posterior half of opisthosoma. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 3.3 mm

Distribution

Presence

No data

Global distribution (WSC 2026): Georgia

Phenology



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Figures

Pedipalp
(Tanasevitch 1987a)

Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Tanasevitch 2025b)

Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Tanasevitch 2025b)

Embolic division
(Tanasevitch 1987a)

Embolic division, lateral view
(Tanasevitch 2025b)

Epigyne
(Tanasevitch 1987a)

Vulva, ventral view
(Tanasevitch 1987a)

Distribution List

References

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Tanasevitch A V (1987a) The linyphiid spiders of the Caucasus, USSR (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 67: 297-383

Tanasevitch A V (2025b) Notes on the spider genus Plesiophantes Heimer, 1981, with the first description of the female of P. tanasevitchi Wunderlich, 2011 (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Invertebrate Zoology 22: 718-726

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2

Turinyphia simplex (Tanasevitch, 1987)